Leander Schaerlaeckens

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344 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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Football Weekly · Is the USA ready for the World Cup? – Football Weekly podcast · 13 May 2026 podcast

In order to have a really broad grassroots player development, you need fathers who can volunteer and mothers who understand the sport and who have grown up playing the game themselves.

One of the big leaps forward that we're now seeing that U.S.

soccer likes to talk about is…

is that you now have executives and decision makers in corporate America who grew up as soccer fans, right?

So you're kind of seeing the generations take over and for more people who have grown up with the sport to rise to positions where either they can invest in the game or they can coach a team or they can do something useful.

It just takes a while for all of that to kind of coalesce.

He seems a bit of a toss-up.

I think there's absolutely a chance.

I think Bochettino sees that he brings something to the team, that he has a technical ability and that potentially he has a game-changing ability, that there just aren't very many players in the American pool who are able to do that.

And yes, that invites the possibility of yet more soccer dad drama in an American World Cup.

You want a tournament to leave a legacy, right?

And that means you want it to accomplish a few different things.

You want it to introduce new fans to the sport.

And that's tricky when it's so prohibitively expensive.

There's an entire generation of Americans who, especially in soccer media, as it happens, who will say, you know, the 1994 World Cup changed my life.

I went to three games.

I went to four games.

It wasn't cheap, but it wasn't sort of insanely pricey.

And that sort of completely turned around

What I was interested in and what I wanted to do with my life.

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